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"There's Joanna Godden saving her tin to buy Great Ansdore," said Bates of Picknye Bush to Cobb of Slinches, as they watched her choosing her shorthorns at Romney. She had Arthur Alce beside her, and he was, as in the beginning, trying to persuade her to be a little smaller in her ideas, but, as in the beginning, she would not listen. "Setting up cow-keeping now, is she?
On her way she met the farmer of Picknye Bush. "Good day, Miss Godden I've just come from buying some tegs of yourn." "My looker's settled with you, has he?" "He said he had the power to sell as he thought proper otherways I was going to ask for you." An angry flush drowned the freckles on Joanna's cheek. "That's Fuller, the obstinate, thick-headed old man...." Bates's round face fell a little.
He treated these people as her and his inferiors unlike Martin Trevor, he would not submit to being driven round and shown off to Misleham, Picknye Bush, or Slinches.... It was small wonder that respectable families became indignant at such airs. "What does he think himself, I'd like to know? He's nothing but a clerk such as I'd never see my boy."
It was at Yokes Court that she bought her roots, and from Becket's House her looker had come; Lydd and Rye and Romney were only market-towns you did best in cattle at Rye, but the other two were proper for sheep; Old Honeychild was just a farm where she had bought some good spades and dibbles at an auction; at Misleham they had once had foot-and-mouth disease she had gone to Picknye Bush for the character of Milly Pump, her chicken-girl....
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